There are now over three million human beings in cruel bondage in the United States.
One passing in the streets hears voices of base, tenor, etc, some rough, some clear as the sound of a bell of goldmaking an attractive melody.
The women of this class spend the winter in spinning cotton and wool, making carpets, sacks, etc.
Before the death of the late king, Zelli Sultan, his first, son, began making secret preparations to usurp the throne.
The heroic death of the fanatical Bobes had the effect on many prominent men in the capital of making them believers in Bobe.
The words of the poet Sahdy are still true: "It is a paradise making men drunken with the odors of its roses; it is a garden whose streams wreath the faces of men in smiles.
Lutf-Ali-Merza rushed on Mazandaron and killed all the relations of Mohammed Khan who were ruling there, and took captive Agha Mohammed Khan a boy only six years old, making him a eunuch.
The young ladies and brides spend their time in making caps, purses, head-covering, dresses, etc.
In some instances the older ladies spend their time making rugs, shawls, and carpets--some of which are very beautiful and costly.
The Koran contains mistakes such as making the Virgin Mary the mother of our Lord the same person as Mary the sister of Moses and Aaron.
Her friends, and the missionaries of all denominations, were making an angry search for the missing woman, and the prince ordered his servants to return her to her native village.
The method of making the convert is not questioned.
The silver smiths do some highly skillful work in making rings for the ears and fingers, and belts for the ladies.
The method of making an engagement is quite different from that of Americans.
It is a custom among dealers to ask two or three times what an article is worth, expecting to come down with the price before making a sale.
He says the love of the miller is more than the love of the nightingale because the nightingale shows its love by singing and making noise; but the miller, though it has a living body, makes no noise when it is burning in the fire.
Mr. Perkins gained the confidence and won the love of the people by making himself one of their number, by adopting their customs and speaking of Assyria as "our nation.
He was engrossed with the task of getting out to the buffalo camp, finding Considine, and making him come forward and save the family.
He thought of making Red Mick a sporting offer of, say, a couple of hundred pounds, to disappear altogether--Mick could have arranged that easily enough.
Mary seemed to take a delicious pleasure in making Hugh come to her for orders and consultations.
Here and there a treacherous, slimy watercourse wound its slinking way along, making a bog in which a horse would sink to his shoulders; and over all these traps and pitfalls the long waving jungle-grass drew a veil.
I've got the paper here for you to sign, making over your interest in the block and the cattle, and all that.
The approach to houses in the bush is generally by way of the yard where the horses arrive, and it is very unusual for anyone, except a stranger making a formal visit, to be allowed to find their way round to the front.
As a matter of fact, he wasmaking the most of his chances, and before long they were getting on capitally.
She had pictured him saying all sorts of endearing things, and making all sorts of loving protestations; and now it had come to this--she had been asked as if it were merely a matter of avoiding scandal.
Carew was making himself very attentive to Ellen Harriott, Mary was flirting very openly with Charlie Gordon, to Hugh's intense misery; and it was whispered about the station that the younger brother would be deposed in favour of the elder.
Making it look as if he had only proposed to her because he ought to protect her good name!
The horse was soon out of sight, making bounds that would have cleared a house if one had been in the way.
The fact that the defence of consent is available to persons under 21 years of age is a factor making it more difficult to obtain a conviction when the person charged is over 21 years.
In areas where there is a lack of facilities for recreation and entertainment the Department should consider the possibility of making school grounds and buildings available to responsible organizations.
This section is to indicate the difficulties which arise in making comparisons (even when figures are available) between different sections of the people at different times and between different groups of people.
But there is a big gap in the knowledge of the art of home-making possessed by many parents.
At first he employed this ironical method to trap his opponents into making unwary statements that led to their confusion; and in this way he grew expert in obtaining victories that, as he said, neither he nor his cause deserved.
Besides making many ingenious toys and showy experiments, Franklin added three contributions of real importance to science.
He was making money, had discovered a few agreeable persons to pass his evenings with, and was contented.
And he felt a nameless fear creep into his heart, making him shiver again.
Slowly and languidly Babalatchi paddled, crouching low in the boat, making himself small under his as enormous sun hat to escape the scorching heat reflected from the water.
Under these vivifying impulses he asked Captain Ford to write to his friends in England making inquiries after Lingard.
Then as if making up his mind suddenly for a reckless confidence he would inform Abdulla of some transaction in rice, repeating the words, "A hundred big bags the Sultan bought; a hundred, Tuan!
He remembered making the pegs himself and noticed that they were very good pegs.
Dain shook Nina off, and, making a sudden lunge, struck Almayer full in the chest with the handle of his kriss, keeping the point towards himself.
The emperor immediately draws his short hunting-knife, and after making several mystic passes with it in the air, strikes the prostrate body of the neophyte a smart blow with the flat of the broad blade.
It is difficult to imagine anything that appealed more to the masses in Germany than this manner adopted by the kaiser for making his sons acquainted with the world.
Next succeedeth Octher making relation of his doings, and describing the North Countreys, vnto his soueraigne Lord K.
From hence proceedeth this slander, against our whole Nation: dissembling in the meane time with what honestie certaine Germans, making yerely voyages into Island, deale with our men.
For fifty pounds of money of losse they wold not wond In a thousand pound, and liue thereby Till the day of payment easily, Come againe in exchange: making Full like vsury, as men make vndertaking.
Then all the princes of the Islands making a generall conspiracie, banded themselues against him, and expelled him out of their dominions.
It went winding among beech trees, which, when they were lopped, had thrown out long feathery branches from their roots and stems, making a beautiful green wall on each side, and meeting in an arch above.
In the evenings you may see them, one by one, issuing from the several paths out of the trees, and each making his way to his own home.
I think you're making a mistake not to take the dress, Julia dear.
This widening was caused by pieces of chert having been removed from the mass, this evidently having been one of the sources whence the Indians secured material for the making of their implements.
Making an early start in search of wood, we came suddenly upon four Cree tents, whose inmates were still fast asleep; about three hundred yards west of them we found ten more tents, with over fifty or sixty Indians in all.
Maximilian described the art of pottery making among the Mandan as exactly like that of the two associated tribes, the Hidatsa and Arikara.
It may be observed that there were no sacred rites connected with the earth lodge-building or tent-making among the Omaha and Ponka.
When the chief began to fill his pipe, made of green talc, we rose and retired (quite in Indian fashion) in silence, and without making any salutations.
How long the Pawnee had occupied that region may never be determined, but they had evidently migrated from the southwest, probably moving slowly, making long stops on the way.
In the spring and autumn the Quapaws have a custom of making a contribution dance, in which they visit also the whites, who live in the vicinity, and the chief alms which they crave is salt or articles of diet.
On the morning of the 13th many squaws were again observed makingtheir way to the cornfields, with their small children.
A relation of the chief was employed in making arrows, which were finished very neatly, and with great care.
Soon three birds, the forerunners of the army to follow, came over between my right-hand neighbour and me, two of them making straight for his butt.
You avoid a boggy gap, which the two riders ahead of you are making for, and catch hold of your horse for a clean "stake-and-bound.
The start was a little sketchy, as the roan mare began by making a series of low curtseys, instead of progressing in the ordinary way, while the ex-wheeler was a little out of his element too, as a leader.
This irritated The Robber, who, making a wild bounce forward, wrenched the bridle clean off the wheeler's head!
I was so absorbed in this effort, that it did not occur to me for some time that there was much more than this dexterity to be gained in order to be sure of making a good score.
Fox-hunting is not merely an idle amusement; it is an outlet for man's natural instincts; a healthy way ofmaking him active, and training his character.
The economic factor, while a great attraction to the Westerners, was no inducement to them to become Chinese; they were willing to gain Chinese wealth, and dreamed of conquering it, but not of making wealth in the Chinese manner.
He was hoping to bring the standards of Chinese labor up to those of the West, and he was making use of the political power of labor in China as an added instrument of the national economic revolution.
The people could not govern themselves, as apart from governing the officialdom makingup the National government, unless they had mechanisms with which to do so.
Sun Yat-sen's principle of min ch'uean was the self-control of the whole people first, and a government by the mass of individuals making up the people secondarily.
This was one of the favorite aphorisms of Sun Yat-sen, and he devoted much time, effort, and thought to making it plain to his countrymen.
William that it was his own book which saved China from Bolshevism by making an anti-Marxian out of Sun after he had fallen prey to the Bolshevist philosophy.
They oppose, on the other hand, the making of a fetish of private ownership, and recognize that the vast mass of ordinary men in modern society do not always receive their just share of the produce of industry.
China has plenty of raw materials for making paper, such as the vast virgin forests of the northwestern part of the country, and the wild reeds of the Yangtze and its neighboring swamps which would furnish the best pulps.
In regard to the first point, it will be seen immediately that government, once cheng ming has been set in motion, is not a policy-making body.
You have," said Raffles, "in the sense of making your perfidy even plainer than it was before.
On the other hand, if his idea was to stop the huge cheque already given to Raffles, then there was indeed no time to be lost, and the only wonder was that Levy should have waited so long before making overtures to me.
How near we were to swamping our craft, and making sure of our victim by drowning, I still shudder to remember; but I think it must have prevented me from shuddering over more remote possibilities at the time.
Raffles, to my surprise, walked in as though the marble hall belonged to him, and as straight as might be to the grill-room where white-capped cooks were making things hiss upon a silver grill.
Levy looked crumpled and debauched, flabbily and feebly senile, yet with his vital forces making a last flicker in his fiery eyes.
And what such motive for the very flight that we were making with but a moment's preparation?
Why, my dear Bunny, I should back myself to swarm up and out without making a sound or leaving a sign, if I heard our hero's key in the lock this moment.
Yet the memory of our terrible discovery on that occasion had not the effect of making me shrink from such another now; nor could I echo the hope of Raffles in my heart of hearts.
But it's about time that we were making the lights of Dover," he added, beating an abrupt retreat from sentiment, even to the length of getting up and looking out as we clattered through a country station.
And may I ask if you propose to 'get rid' of Mr. Garland by making him 'pay up' in full?
My compliments especially on making up your varlets in the quite colourable image of the true detective.
And once more I could but admire the tact with which Levy had discarded his favourite cudgels, and the surprising play that he was making with the buttoned foil.
Care alone was necessary to place it in position without making a noise; then up I went, and up went the trapdoor next, without mishap or hindrance until I tried to stand up in the loft, and caught my head a crack against the tiles instead.
All the way home he grumbled and growled: "A nice way to treat a man, always making him carry chests!
This done he went home and at once told Susanna about the buried treasure which was going to be the means of making their old age comfortable.
Wetehinen treated the second sister just exactly as he had the first, making her mistress of the house and telling her she might use every key but one.
The Goat himself began climbing down the tree, at the same time making an awful noise with his sack.
She pulled out another empty chest and then one evening after she had succeeded in making old Wetehinen comfortable and drowsy she begged him to carry this also to her father.
They meant by this that only animals lived in the forest and they thought they weremaking a good joke at Veikko's expense.
At the silver castle the second sister received them with joy and when she heard who Helli was at once declared that she wanted to show him her gratitude by making him a gift.
The making of machine guns to-day as compared with 1915 has increased twenty-fold, while the supply of small-arm ammunition has become so abundant that the necessity for importation has ceased altogether.
Antony, on his part, surrendered himself a willing victim to these wiles, and entered with all his heart into the thousand plans of gayety and merry-making which Cleopatra devised.
Other plans for making head against Caesar's power were formed in Spain, in Africa, and in Italy.
In such cases she would hastily brush her tears away, and assume a countenance of smiles and good humor, as if making every effort to be happy, though really oppressed with a heavy burden of anxiety and grief.
From the plunder which Caesar had obtained in his various campaigns, he expended the most enormous sums in making feasts and spectacles for the populace at the time of his triumph.
He unroofed some of the most magnificent edifices to procure timber as a material for making benches and oars.
In the mean time, while all these events had been transpiring in the East, Octavius had been making his preparations for the coming crisis, and was now advancing with a powerful fleet across the sea.
He, in fact, assisted Octavia in making her preparations.
The boats then, having succeeded in making some prizes from Antony's fleet, though they had failed in capturing Antony himself, gave up the pursuit and returned.
He then had these boys walk round and round the band, sucking the lemons and making puckered faces at the musicians.
It will enable you to acquire the magical qualities and still more magical effects that spell success and happiness, without straining your will to the breaking point and making life a burden.
Sidenote: A Process for "Making Good"] These are mental energies and resources.
Wherever you may look in any plant, you will find these cells making up its tissues.
Every conscious, voluntary movement that you make, and you are making thousands of them every hour, is a distinct example of mind activity causing bodily action.
Every effort was made to add to the number of the disloyal ones; and when they saw their friends making ready to depart several of these did actually join.
Down go the buckets and kettles and out run the wretched scarecrows of seamen to the weary business of tacking ship, letting go, brailing up, hauling in, and makingfast for the thousandth time; and then back to the pumps and kettles again.
One may choose between believing that the Admiral's memory had entirely failed him (although he had not been backward in making a minute record, of all his sufferings) or that he was craftily attempting to deceive the Sovereigns.
We are not any more concerned with James in his priestly shelter, but with those elder brothers of his who are making ready again to face the sun and the surges.
The crew grumbled very much at this proceeding, which they did not understand; in fact they argued from it that the Admiral was making straight for Spain, and this, in the crazy condition of the vessels, naturally alarmed them.
You and Ebearhard," he continued, turning to Greusel, "will employ the time in counting the money and making a fair division.
He went on horseback up the valley, after making inquiries about the route to Limburg on the Lahn.
You begin by making vague charges of dishonesty, treachery, and what-not, against some person or persons unknown.
I not only withdraw it, but I apologize to you for my folly in making it.
For the sword-making of Germany the Italian expressed the utmost contempt.
This evening he purposed making a still more important disclosure; thus when the meal was finished, and the landlord, after replenishing the flagons, had retired, the new sword maker rose in his place at the head of the table.
The merchant gazed across at him quizzically for some time without making any reply, then he said: "Do you think I believe you?
Kurzbold, finding himself now alone, laughed, and got upon his feet, thus making the vote unanimous.
It was only too evident that the Archbishop of Cologne was bitterly disappointed, for he rode silently by her side making no attempt at conversation.
Again Roland instantaneously lost the confidence of his auditors, and they were not slow in making him of the fact.
I therefore lodged as a wayfarer at every castle to I could gain admittance, making friends with some underling, and getting a bed on occasion in the stables, although often I lodged within the castle itself.
She had no thought of making this avowal, but was irresistibly drawn to it by the sympathy of the dark emotion in her own breast with that so strongly expressed by Donatello.
The sole exception to the geniality of the moment, as we have understood, was seen in a countryman of our own, who sneered at the spectacle, and declined to compromise his dignity by making part of it.
In accordance with an ordinary custom, a pilgrim wasmaking his progress from shrine to shrine upon his knees, and saying a penitential prayer at each.
Or he might have been a lunatic, fleeing instinctively from man, and making it his dark pleasure to dwell among the tombs, like him whose awful cry echoes afar to us from Scripture times.
Keep your sympathy, then, for sorrows that admit of such solace," said she, making a strong effort to compose herself.
Such men, on the strength of some small knack in handling clay, which might have been fitly employed in making wax-work, are bold to call themselves sculptors.
At this moment, the evening sunshine is flinging its golden mantle over it, makingall that we thought mean magnificent; the bells of all the churches suddenly ring out, as if it were a peal of triumph because Rome is still imperial.
Young as she is, the morning light seems already to have faded out of her life; and now comes Donatello, with natural sunshine enough for himself and her, and offers her the opportunity of making her heart and life all new and cheery again.
On those words of his I have acted ever since I heard them, and I am persuaded that those meetings are frequently the means of making permanent impression on many of those who are brought together by them.
His interest in the Society never waned, and it did well many years afterwards in making him one of its Vice-Presidents.
On Sunday mornings, three-quarters of an hour before service began, many aged and poor parishioners might be seen making their way into the church to secure good seats.
I do not feel in much heart for speech-making to-day, for I am utterly out of practice.
I am sure there is kindness for the old, for I am receiving it every day, and I am equally sure there is kindness for the young, for I am constantly meeting with persons who are spending their whole lives in making them happy.
I wonder at the grace of God that kept me from making more blunders than I did; for having had no experience I had not the slightest fear of difficulty.
I have been thinking of you all day in your return to the dear old home, and have almost felt disposed to envy you, for I am satisfied with holiday-making and begin to long for home.
Some one present had spoken very wrongly and impertinently of one of the curates, making suggestions of evil in his remarks.
I am sure we ought all to be very grateful to your uncle and aunt for their kindness in making it.
The party now assembling for church all in good heart; Mr. Hankinson making the eight bridesmaids and about six other ladies laugh in the dining-room, the rest dispersed.
As we run and scramble on through the scrub, making way upwards along the gully, we pass several dead pigs at intervals, which show that the rest of the boys have been well employed.
This was got over by inverting the table at night, and making him recline on the inside of it, with the legs sticking up around him.
But when it came to the dancing, and when she saw the Maori girls making ready to take part in it, then the storm burst.
The little glade is full of unwonted life; nigh a score of the hunting party, and eight or ten dogs, are making things pretty lively within it.
And he is not impressed with the notion of making a home, but with the desire to make a great pot.
Old Colonial was at last discovered behind a flax-bush, deep in a discussion on beet-root sugar-making with a stranger, and wholly oblivious of the row.
We would all go, making shift as well as we could.
The rubbing of noses is now disused; and when a Maori confers it on a Pakeha it means an extra display of feeling, almost a making brotherhood.
But, more than that, they are not hampered by the necessity of making a living as they go along.
A good deal of judgment is required in making these contracts.
The moon was at the full, throwing sombre shadows down from the woods upon the gleaming water, and making the splendid scenery of the river mysterious and romantic.
Among the spurs and declivities of the mount are many villas of the wealthier citizens, standing in well laid-out grounds, and making a very pleasing picture.
But the wife just glances slyly at her husband, and he looks guiltily away at the far horizon; for the dear schemer has been making a confidant of him, for want of a better.
We are kindred spirits, and are happy in our way, making light of difficulties, laughing at hardships and privations, and mocking at poverty and toil.
Tom tries and fails, but arrives at the possible conclusion that it is 'some o' them 'ere Cubeyans a-making game on us.
The troops willingly obey, and are preparing for their march back, when twenty of the volunteers come to the front and propose making one effort to storm the enemy's impregnable fortress.
People broadly hinted that my Tunicú was a libertine, like some of his companions and that he had no intention of making me his wife; but we were both favoured with rivals whose interest it was to speak in these terms.
He carries little else besides his gun, his tobacco, and a tin-pot for making coffee; for the country through which he is passing abounds naturally in nearly every kind of provender.
The resources of Cuba for the making of statues are limited, so the material we employ is slight.
Doña Mercedes has heard of our captivity, and, without making any enquiry into the nature of our misdemeanour, has instantly despatched one of her black domestics with the best breakfast she can prepare.
Shopkeepers in Cuba are usually natives of Barcelona, and the object of Ramon's disguise, is to persuade Don Gabriel that he is one of that money-making community.
Many of the less opulent Madamas of the town employ their time by making French pastry, which their slaves afterwards dispose of in the public streets.
I need not waste words bymaking the long-winded inquiry, 'Do you love me?
We employ the interval which precedes that late meal in a saunter through Don Benigno's sugar works, where some of us are initiated into the mysteries of sugar making and rum distilling.
